John Chervinsky
moved to Boston in 1984 from Niagara Falls, NY and began taking photographs
with his fathers Kodak Retina as a means to capture subject matter
for painting. He has since moved up to larger format cameras and gradually
acquired the technique to use them. To support his photography compulsion,
he runs a particle accelerator in one of Harvard Universitys Applied
Physics laboratories.

His past
work covers three broad themes: industrial landscapes, abstractions and
portraits. John writes that his industrial landscapes are a reaction
to my upbringing in an over-industrialized area. The city of Niagara Falls
went through one of the country's most notorious environmental disasters
(Love Canal) in history. But the images are taken with an ambivalence
too; for having been steeped in the visual world of factories, scrap yards
and high voltage power lines, I find beauty in them as well.